Here are the posted open, public Southborough committee and board meetings for this week* along with my selected highlights from the agendas.
Despite the snow closing Town facilities, the Planning Board will hold its meeting tonight over zoom with hearings and several important discussions.
As always, be aware that changes to the meeting schedule (and agendas) are known to happen throughout the week. (Scroll down for details on any meetings that popped up after last Monday’s post.) For an updated list of meetings, visit the Town website.
These days, most (but not all) meetings, can be participated in, watched live, and replayed from home.)**
Monday, January 26, 2026
- Planning Board Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on Scenic Road Stonewall & Tree Removals (at Oak Hill Rd, Parkerville Rd, Woodland Rd and Richards Rd) and Major Site Plan Approval for Disability Assistance & Vocational Education private school with multi-family housing at 352 Turnpike Rd; Update on Costco; Discuss Tricentennial Committee Signs, several potential bylaw revisions (correcting MBTA Communities Maximum height, update 55+ Housing, Replace references to defunct SHOPC with Affordable Housing Trust, and updating Industrial Park zoning including expanded uses), updating Subdivision Rules & Regs, and next steps for letter to Open Space abutters
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
- Trails Committee Meeting, 6:30 pm @ zoom only (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Peninsula Trail updates and next steps; grants & volunteers
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
- Community Preservation Committee Meeting, 7:00 pm @ Town House Hearing Room and zoom (agenda) Agenda Highlights: FY27 applications for Affordable Housing Trust transfer, Rural Cemetery Water Tower Restoration Project, and Fayville Park Improvements; signage to complete projects; ongoing projects; update on Preservation Restrictions for Town House/Library
Thursday, January 29, 2026
- Conservation Commission Meeting, 7:00 pm @ zoom only (agenda and packet) Agenda Highlights: Public Hearings on 8 Schipper Farm Lane (installation of bowling ball pyramid) and 11 Brook Lane (replacement of septic); Breakneck Hill restoration progress
Friday, January 30, 2026
- Southborough School Committee Meeting, 12:00 pm @ webinar (agenda) Agenda Highlights: Roof options for Neary School; Special Town Meeting Warrant Article & preparation
Looking Back:
Below are meetings from last week that were posted after I ran last week’s list:
Saturday, January 24, 2026
- Annual Budget Forum held in joint session of Select Board & Advisory Committee, 9:00 am Agenda Highlights: The (in-person-only) meeting focused on a review of FY27 operational and capital budgets with both committees asking questions of the following departments:
- Algonquin Regional (and Regional School Committee)
- Southborough Schools (and School Committee)
- Fire Dept.
- Department of Public Works
- Police Dept.
- Information Technology Dept.
- Southborough Library (and Board of Library Trustees)
*I don’t list meetings that are only closed Executive Sessions unless the agenda indicates the possibility of some action in an open public session at the opening or closing of the meeting.
**Details on watching meetings remotely:
- Town Committee/Board Meetings:
- If in-person meetings don’t also advertise a zoom option, assume that it won’t be broadcast or captured on video.
- To remotely participate in meetings that allow zoom, click here.
- To live stream (or view later) remote or hybrid meetings (even those covered by Southborough Access Media) over the internet, use the Town’s YouTube Channel for Remote Meetings. (The meetings covered by SAM can also be streamed on their website here, and eventually on SAM’s YouTube Channel.)
- Cable Access — Southborough Access Media broadcasts the regular evening meetings for the Select Board, Planning Board, and Zoning Board of Appeals that take place in the Town House Hearing Room. (Those meetings will still allow zoom participation.) View SAM’s live and replayed broadcasts via their Government cable access channel (Verizon-37 and Charter-194).
- School Committee Meetings:
- Subcommittee meetings and some special meetings are only available to attend/view live (in person or by “webinar”) with no later rebroadcast.
